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The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler (Paperback)

The Attempt on Hitlers Life in July 1944

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By Heinrich Fraenkel, Roger Manvell, Foreword by Roger Moorhouse
Frontline Books
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781848325098
Published: 17th July 2008
Last Released: 1st September 2008

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The story of the ill-fated bomb plot in Nazi Germany on 20 July 1944, is one of the most extraordinary of the whole war. Many people will be familiar with the climax - the audacious von Stauffenberg, with his eye-patch and the briefcase containing the time-bomb, penetrating the F'hrer's secret headquarters in the forests of East Prussia, leaving the conference room, seeing the destruction and flying to Berlin to set a revolution in motion, convinced that Hitler was dead. Few readers however would be fully aware of the various strands of the German resistance that were woven together in the conspiracy, the slow and delicate stages by which it was built up and, above all, the disastrous lack of liaison between the organisers that finally brought it to grief.rnrnThe full dramatic details of the conspiracy and the subsequent events in Berlin and Paris are set down in this comprehensive and accessible history by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel. As well as drawing on an array of primary documents including Gestapo interrogation records, the authors worked closely with the many men and women who were in varying degrees involved in the conspiracy and survived Hitler's vengeance, or were related to those prominent in the conspiracy who were executed in its aftermath.

This book is in part a detective story - and a fascinating one at that. But it is also the first narrative I have read that is not ashamed to portray the conspirators as they really were - the noblest and most tragic Germans of their generation . . . The July Plot is Shakespearean tragedy precisely because it is concerned with the politics of naked power and the ethics of treason

The Observer

Exciting and readable

The Times

About Roger Moorhouse

Roger Moorhouse is an historian of the Third Reich. He is the author of the acclaimed Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects and The Devil's Alliance, and has been published in more than 20 languages. He is also a tour guide and visiting professor at Warsaw's College of Europe. You can see him on Twitter at @Roger_Moorhouse.

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